CVE-2018-14438

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14438
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-14438.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-14438
Downstream
Published
2018-07-20T00:29:00.457Z
Modified
2026-03-14T09:28:16.295308Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Wireshark through 2.6.2, the createapprunningmutex function in wsutil/fileutil.c calls SetSecurityDescriptorDacl to set a NULL DACL, which allows attackers to modify the access control arbitrarily.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wireshark/wireshark

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
1b3cedbc5fe5b9d8b454a10fcd2046f0d38a9f19
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.6.2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
backups/ethereal@18706
ethereal-0-3-15
start
ethereal-0.*
ethereal-0.3.15
v1.*
v1.11.0
v1.11.0-rc1
v1.11.1
v1.11.1-rc1
v1.11.2
v1.11.2-rc1
v1.11.3
v1.11.3-rc1
v1.11.4-rc1
v1.99.0
v1.99.0-rc1
v1.99.1
v1.99.10rc0
v1.99.1rc0
v1.99.2
v1.99.2rc0
v1.99.3
v1.99.3rc0
v1.99.4
v1.99.4rc0
v1.99.5
v1.99.5rc0
v1.99.6
v1.99.6rc0
v1.99.7
v1.99.7rc0
v1.99.8
v1.99.8rc0
v1.99.9
v1.99.9rc0
v2.*
v2.1.0
v2.1.0rc0
v2.1.1
v2.1.1rc0
v2.1.2rc0
v2.3.0rc0
v2.5.0
v2.5.0rc0
v2.5.1
v2.5.1rc0
v2.5.2rc0
v2.6.0
v2.6.0rc0
v2.6.1
v2.6.1rc0
v2.6.2
v2.6.2rc0
wireshark-1.*
wireshark-1.11.3
wireshark-1.99.0
wireshark-1.99.1
wireshark-1.99.2
wireshark-1.99.3
wireshark-1.99.4
wireshark-1.99.5
wireshark-1.99.6
wireshark-1.99.7
wireshark-1.99.8
wireshark-1.99.9
wireshark-2.*
wireshark-2.1.0
wireshark-2.1.1
wireshark-2.5.0
wireshark-2.6.0
wireshark-2.6.1
wireshark-2.6.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-14438.json"